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ALNAP and ProVention Consortium report titled 'Responding to Earthquakes 2008: Learning from Earthquake Relief and Recovery Operations,' showing the Summary of Lessons table of contents with sections on Recovery First, Relief Issues, Managing Aid, and Livelihoods and Shelter, each with bulleted sub-topics and page numbers.

Responding to earthquakes 2008: Learning from earthquake relief and recovery operations

This paper aims to provide a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes. It concentrates on issues of particular relevance in earthquakes. The paper assumes that readers are already familiar with the more general lessons in the aid sector such as the key roles of needs assessment, effective coordination, accountability

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Nepal’s Emergency Preparedness and Response System: Good practices, lessons learnt, and gaps

“Though landslides, floods and epidemics occur annually right across Nepal, this study focuses on just nine of the nation’s 75 districts: six in the Far- and Mid-West and three in the Eastern development regions. It further narrowed its focus to the 2008 flood of the Koshi River, the 2009 flash floods in Kailali and Kanchanpur

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NSET Report 2014: Safer Society

The 2014 Report by National Society for Earthquake Technology -Nepal (NSET) presents an account of NSET’s endeavors and activities towards the enhancement of disaster resilience of communities in Nepal during the past year. The report includes NSET’s initiatives towards i) reducing earthquake risk and building resilience of communities, ii) assisting municipalities in building code implementation in

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Earthquake preparedness in Nepal

This external final evaluation offers a candid look at how preparedness shaped Nepal’s ability to respond to and recover from catastrophic seismic risk. Building on the Earthquake Preparedness for Safer Communities (EPS) programme that the British Red Cross (BRC) and Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) had been running in the Kathmandu Valley before 2015, the

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